1. Oh yes, I keep a paper notepad to write down ideas and diary entries. Every time at lunch, I try to write at least something. It doesn't have to be a lot. Even just a few lines. 2. You might find the flip phone more annoying in our current era. But who knows? Give it a try! 5/6. Yeah, it certainly seems like Star Trek had a lot more attention in the late 80s and 90s. Especially with tv series like Star Trek New Generation. And now Star Wars is getting all the attention. Part of that attention to Star Wars might be due to the long time where Star Wars pretty much fell off the map. When Star Wars started to come back, it had people a lot more excited, because of that draught. 7. I'm listening to Ghostbusters II now too. Oh man. Bobby Brown. His 1988 album "Don't Be Cruel" was one of the first CDs I ever owned! Man. I can even remember unwrapping it during Christmas that year. Back then CDs came boxed in really long packages, so they could sit inside the old record LP cases. 8/9. Where would you want your essay to be published? 10. Yes. More blog posts in this style. I will take blog posts of any style!

This makes me feel better about being a generalist. I often yearn to dive really deep into one area, to really master it, and have the sense of accomplishment. But your post here excellently explains the value of being a generalist.

This is a drastic scorched-earth tactic! You could end up with more blocked people than people you are following. I wish there was a free service that would point out all the fake people that are following me. I'd like to block those folks.

As an Evernote user since 2009, I highly recommend this note app. I especially love the ability to search for the text within PDFs and images. I regularly save all my screenshots in Evernote. It often comes in handy when I need to find something.

How are things going? This blog post is from April 3, 2017. This is your most recent blog post, so we haven't heard any updates from you in ten months. This is a bit concerning given your company's history of a near shutdown. We'd love to see more blog posts from your company to know you are still alive and running. I know my Narrative Clip (v1) still works. I love using it to this day. Please let us know you, as a company, are still working.

My poor little iPhone 5s isn't available for the battery upgrade. Apple apparently forgot about this model, but that means they aren't throttling the battery of it, either. But I wouldn't mind paying the $30 to get a new battery. That's a nice deal. I'm glad you were able to cash in on this.

I found out that Reddit has no subreddit for this blog post about the history of State of the Union tickets. It falls into a weird niche. * On the r/politics, they don't accept links from non-whitelisted sites (I know this, because I submitted my link, and it got rejected because spudart.or is not on their whitelist.) * On the r/design, they don't allow posts involving politics. I've run into the same dilemma with blog posts about art. There is no subreddit for art articles. the r/art wants only image posts.

At first I thought the livestream thing was just a joke. And then I saw it’s real in the news! Trump wants people to pay him $35 to have their name appear in his SOTU livestream. Do you think they are screening the names. Maybe Lee V. Mediately should make a donation.

I like to call these "Chimney towers" or "Smokestacks". Here's hoping that the one in Chicago will have a regular plume of smoke coming out the top. I remember the day when the smoke from Howells & Hood was redirected inside the building. It smelled like hamburger all day long. Perhaps Trib Two can become one giant hamburger tower.

This is inspiring me to make a “scorecard stick” for each of the games of the 2016 World Series. How cool would that be? To have a real physical stick for every game with notches in it. Alongside the notches would be illustrations of the significant events in each game.

Another Google product that will die within a couple years. Nice try, Google. Actually, not even "nice try"... more like "bad try." Perhaps Google should make a good try--oh I know. Perhaps Google can bring back Google Reader and allow people to actually control what sources they see, how often they see it, and mark things as read, so we don't see the same articles repeat over and over. Wow. You think readers would like to have that in this age of Twitter and Facebook controlling our feed?

Most (if not all) the apps in this list are pretty obscure. Nothing totally major. Microsoft Office is big, but they already have a 64-bit suite available. Apple made their announcement in June last year, so the big-time development companies have had some time to get their apps updated.

A potential browser-based marginalia tool gets me very excited! In the meantime, I tried your instructions with highlighting text on your post to get the link icon. However, instead of getting the link icon, I got the icons from Hypothesis’ annotation tool. (screenshot). One might think that the Hypothesis plug-in is doing some overriding here, but I don’t even have it installed in this browser. Very curious.

The opening ceremony for the 2018 Winter Olympics will be at 5am (central time) on February 9. Huh. I'm assuming NBC will be doing a tape-delay for America. That'll make for some odd live-tweeting, because you could watch the whole ceremony before it actually airs on regular tv.

I was living on Ridgeland in Oak Park when they implemented the Divvy program. I was very excited, because Oak Park is already a bicycle-friendly village, and I personally love to bike around town. I would have joined this program, but there weren't enough stations to make it convenient--instead I rode my own bike around town. Rarely did I see anyone biking on a Divvy in Oak Park. It's a sort of chicken and egg. If they had more stations, perhaps more people would have joined. But of course, that's a larger investment to see.

I remember the time years ago when Facebook released Groups first. Not all brands made a Group. By the time most brands joined Facebook, there were Pages. When Facebook released Pages, everyone got confused between Groups and Pages. We had to convince people to create Pages, not Groups. So it's rather funny now that we are supposed to convince people to now create Groups and not Pages.

Kudos for you seeing Medium for what it is. So many of us want to chase the audience and the hot new platform. Your deep experience shows that these platforms are temporal. Focus is one of the things I need to improve upon, so it pleases me that a writer I respect is taking the actions to focus his work. This inspires me.

"Never is nature more lovely than when it is snowing. Everything is so quiet and . . . all of nature is hushed into silence." Yes, indeed! One of my favorite Chicago memories is the Snowpocalypse 2011. No cars at all on the streets. Just people walking. Quietly. Enjoying the landscape of white snow.

I'm curious what you think about KodakCoin for digital photography (just launched today). Kodak is saying, "[it] not only allows photographers to license their work and get paid more quickly, it will search the internet for unauthorized use of images"

Here's a product suggestion: on the index pages (like the category page, tag page, and homepage) it would be great show show the recent comments for each blog post. Sort of how like Facebook shows the two or three most recent comments right under the post. Currently, to see the comments, a user has to click on the individual blog post, and then scroll down. The interaction gets a bit buried. How do we get more interaction through comments? Bring them right up onto the homepage under each post. 🙂 Facebook is really smart, they figured out this is a key way of increasing engagement on the posts on their site. It would be great to have this Facebook-like engagement on our own blogs.

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